Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit.
Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.
"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foreign Lesions'
The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering, Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new... more
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released September 30, 2016
Side A:
Submitted
A Hedonist
Foreign Lesions
Replicate
Side B:
Baby Giant Squid
Andrew Brocchi: Synths
Sam Dixon: Drums, Percussion
Nell Grant: Saxophone
Damien Minards: Piano (Baby Giant Squid)
Henry Wilson: Bass, Guitar (Foreign Lesions), Backing Vocals (Replicate), Synth Strings, Locust Guitar (Baby Giant Squid)
Albert Wolski: Vocals, Guitar, Glockenspiel, Synths, Organ, Spring Reverb, Pans (Submitted, Casio, Cement Balls, (A Hedonist), Arpeggiator (Baby Giant Squid)
Side A originally released 2014. Stripped to bass and guitar and rerecorded in 2016.
Side B originally released in 2015.
Produced by Albert Wolski. Mastered by Mikey Young.
Cover Painting by Jesse Hogan. Font by Albert Wolski.
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